graded roof batten - does the blue colour fade?

[nick60]

Morning all,

I'm looking to use some 25 x 50 batten as part of a fencing project. I was looking a some graded and ungraded batten this morning and the graded stuff looks much better - smoother finish and less knotty. If I use the graded stuff outdoors will the blue colour eventually fade? Thanks
Nick

 

[theprinceofdarkness]

If its the normal tanalising or such like it will go grey in a year.
Frank
P.S. "graded" timber is tested for its strength and is not specially coloured, it will have " C16 " or "C24" stamped on it.

 

[nick60]

Thanks FRank, but I'm talking about this stuff >>

https://www.roofingsuperstore.co.uk...M9Im7LgmHdk61lu822dwfEmulgG1PbVozXhoCMJXw_wcB

"The battens are blue in colour indicating that each individual batten has been assessed, graded and complies with the strength requirements of BS 5534 : 2003 + A1 : 2010".

It's what they use for all new build now (apparently)

 

[theprinceofdarkness]

Wow, here be dragons, never heard of or seen those, are they graded for not being shaped like a dog's leg. Structural timber uses the " C" system. Can't see a C in their number.
Frank

 

[nick60]

Don't know, but i've seen it a lot on building sites / new build. Sometimes it's red. All I know is that it looks a lot tidier than the ungraded batten in my builder's merchants

 

[^woody^]

I don't think that they are blue because they have been graded, they are blue because they have been treated with preservative. The colour stays if they are kept out of sunlight - like under tiles.

 

[tomfe]

Nah you get blue and red ones, they are graded by a specific timber companies
http://www.johnbrash.co.uk/timber-battens/jb-red-roofing-battens/
They are red so you can tell they are roof batons and not normal ungraded 2x1.

They do lose there colour outside.

 

[^woody^]

What is this nonsense. All the merchants aground here just have tantalised battens. You know they are graded because they are the only ones there.

 

[tomfe]

As much nonsense as NHBC

 

[nick60]

OK thanks all. I'm going to buy some - i'll have a fence that is blue for a while....

 

[catlad]

I got some of those fancy expensive blue batons delivered to a job recently and I sent the lot back rubbish.

 

[stuart45]

I got some of those fancy expensive blue batons delivered to a job recently and I sent the lot back rubbish.

Should of gone for red.

 

[catlad]

Lol I went and got the good old trusty green ones